Ian Lyman

I'm an entrepreneur, designer and filmmaker. After attending film school at NYU, I left an internship at Microsoft to create a new kind of music experience for the emerging world of online music. The result was the blockbuster Sonique, a ground-breaking desktop music app that coupled unparalleled audio fidelity with an entirely new approach to interface design.

On it’s debut in 1998, Sonique quickly became one of the most popular music applications in the world, attracting tens of millions of users with its intuitive visual style and unique features. Lycos, Inc. acquired Sonique in 1999.

Since then, I've continued to pursue my passion for technology, design and media, helping to start a wildly popular art-oriented social network, co-founding a music video game startup, operating a micro film studio / production company, and directing music videos and commercials. Today, I'm CEO & Co-Founder of Parkt, a technology startup committed to making parking painless.